Imagine that a communist representative needs to gain entry into a room in which bourgeois representatives are conducting their propaganda before a rather large assembly of workers. Imagine further that the bourgeoisie demands from us a high fee for entry into this room. If the fee was not agreed upon beforehand, we must, of course, haggle so as not to burden our party's budget. If we paid too dearly for entry into this room, then undoubtedly we made a mistake. But it is better to pay dearly—at least, so long as we have not yet learned how to haggle properly—than to renounce the possibility of speaking our word before workers who have hitherto been in the exclusive, so to speak, "possession" of the reformists, that is, the most faithful friends of the bourgeoisie.

This comparison occurred to me when I read in today's *Pravda* a telegraph report from Berlin about the conditions under which an agreement was reached between representatives of the three Internationals.

Our representatives acted incorrectly, in my conviction, in agreeing to the following two conditions: the first condition, that Soviet power will not apply capital punishment in the case of the 47 Socialist-Revolutionaries; the second condition, that Soviet power will permit representatives of all three Internationals to be present at the trial.

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